Phil Haack
Phil is a megalomaniacal software developer with delusions of... well, uh, just delusions.
By day, he is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. By night he leads the Subtext Project, an Open Source blog engine.
You've Been Hacked | 22 Feb 2012 10:10
Phil Haack writes "....In my previous post, I attempted to make a distinction between Open Source and Open Source Software. Some folks took issue with the post and that’s great! I love a healthy debate. It’s an opportunity to learn. One minor request though. If you..."
Read more » What Is The Spirit of Open Source?
You've Been Hacked | 16 Feb 2012 22:57
Phil Haack writes "....UPDATE: I have a follow-up post that addresses a few criticisms of this post.
It all started with an innocent tweet asking whether ASP.NET MVC 3 is “open source” or not? I jumped in with my usual answer, “of course it is!” The source code is..."
Read more » Open Source and Open Source Software Are Not The Same Things
You've Been Hacked | 16 Feb 2012 18:24
Phil Haack writes "....Recently, the Log4Net team released log4net 1.2.11 (congrats by the way!). The previous version of log4Net was 1.2.10. Despite which version of version you subscribe to, we can all agree that only incrementing the third part of a version indicates..."
Read more » Changing A Strong Name Is A Major Breaking Change
You've Been Hacked | 08 Feb 2012 20:08
Phil Haack writes "....I’ve seen a few recent tweets asking about what’s going on with NuGet since I left Microsoft. The fact is that the NuGet team has been hard at work on the release and have been discussing it in various public forums. I think the feeling of “quiet”..."
Read more » The State of NuGet
You've Been Hacked | 30 Jan 2012 07:15
Phil Haack writes "....Back in November, someone asked a question on StackOverflow about converting arbitrary binary data (in the form of a byte array) to a string. I know this because I make it a habit to read randomly selected questions in StackOverflow written in..."
Read more » Hazards of Converting Binary Data To A String
You've Been Hacked | 23 Jan 2012 18:22
Phil Haack writes "....Birthdays are a funny thing, aren’t they? Let’s look at this tweet for example, It's @haacked's birthday. Give him crap about getting old. No gifts, please. Especially not what Charlie suggests. Of course I’m getting older. We’re all getting..."
Read more » Getting Older
You've Been Hacked | 14 Jan 2012 07:29
Phil Haack writes "....Suppose you have a test that needs to compare strings. Most test frameworks do a fine job with their default equality assertion. But once in a while, you get a case like this: [Fact]
public void SomeTest()
{
Assert.Equal("Hard..."
Read more » Comparing Strings in Unit Tests
You've Been Hacked | 11 Jan 2012 00:33
Phil Haack writes "....In the ASP.NET MVC 3 Uservoice site, one of the most voted up items is a suggestion to include an empty project template. No, a really empty project template. You see, ASP.NET MVC 3 includes an “empty” project template, but it’s not empty enough..."
Read more » A Really Empty ASP.NET MVC 3 Project Template
You've Been Hacked | 05 Jan 2012 22:26
Phil Haack writes "....Mary Poppendieck writes the following in Unjust Deserts (pdf), a paper on compensation systems (emphasis mine), There is no greater de-motivator than a reward system that is perceived to be unfair. It doesn’t matter if the system is fair or not...."
Read more » Recognition Compensation
You've Been Hacked | 02 Jan 2012 05:08
Phil Haack writes "....In the past, I’ve tried various schemes to structure my unit tests but never fell into a consistent approach. Pretty much the only rule I had (which I broke all the time) was to write a test class for each class I tested. I would then fill that..."
Read more » Structuring Unit Tests
